IASL Members

Dimitrios P. Panagiotopoulos

Greece

Professor at the University of Athens, Attorney at Law in Supreme Court and Council of State, Vice-Rector(f) and President of University Research Committee,University of Central Greece, President of International Association of Sports Law.

A.Studies
• Degree in Law, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
• Graduate Sports Science and Ph.Ed., University of Athens -Thessaloniki.
• Master of Philosophy Studies, University of Athens.
• Doctor of Sports Law, University of Athens.

B. Academic and professional positions

Professor of Sports law ,University of Athens since 2014

Associate Professor of Sports Law, University of Athens since 2005.

Assoc. Prof. (PD 407) at the University of the Peloponnese in the years 2003-2008.

Asst. Prof. of Sports Law, University of Athens 1992-2004.

Lecturer, University of Athens 1988-1992.

Advocate, Attorney at-Law in Supreme Court and Council of State, Member of the Athens Bar Association since 1992 .

Legal Consultant in many Legal persons and Sports Federations and organizations.

Director of the personal Law Firm and Partners, who undertake law cases of Sports Law and cases in the fields of Commercial Law, Civil law, Contracts, & Torts, Product Liability Law, Labour Law, Comparative Law, Finance and Administrative Law.

Special Expert in Sports Law in the European Union.

Member of Sports law committees of Ministry of Culture.

Member of the Legal Council of the Union of Anonym Society Companies since 2002.

Member of the Committee of the European Presidency (2003-2004), responsible of sports legislation and the establishment of Sports Law Code.

C. Scientific activities

Participation in the Organization of many of Scientific Conferences - Congresses-Seminars - Symposiums, covering the Sports Science and Sports Law.

Member of many Greek and foreign scientific societies.

President of the Greek Center of Sports Law Research (EKEAD).

Author and editor of several scientific books and monographs. The project has been warmly commented upon by many personalities of political and scientific world and the daily press in Greece and abroad.

Published work over 200 scientific studies in Greek and International scientific journals, with many reports of other Greek and foreign scientists and participation in many Greek and international scientific conferences and Congresses.

President of the International Association of Sports Law (IASL) since 2009 (www.iasl.org), also Founder member and Secretary General from 1992 until 2008.

Editor of the international journal of IASL "International Sports Law Review Pandektis" and Greek journal “LexSportiva”.

D. Invited lecturer at Universities:

In Kadir Has University, Sports Law and Sports Jurisdiction , Kadir Has Campus, Cibali Hall June 27, Istanbul 2015, Turkey.

Moscow State Law University named after O. E. Kutafin (MGUA), May 28, Moscow 2013, Russia.

In International Congress of Sports Law, “ International Legitimacy of Sports, Sports Law and Sports Tourism, and LexSportiva” , with topic: “General principles of law in international sports activities and LexSportiva”, Bali 29-30 Oct. 2013, Indonesia.

In International Round Table Discussion which took place in Jakarta, at hotel Atlet Century, LexSportivaInstituta with topic: Sports Law, Sports Tourism And Terrorism , June 28th, 2013,Jakarta –Indonesia.

In Moscow State Law University named after O. E. Kutafin (MGUA), 7th International Conference on “Sport Globalization: Olympic Games and International Sport Competition” 28th May 2013, Moscow, Russia and in the IX Annual International Science Conference, which was held on Thursday, May 30th, 2013 of the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law of the Moscow State University of Law named after O. E. Kutafin (MSAL).

In Changan University and Korean Association of Sports & Entertainment Law, 10thKASEL International Conference on Sports Law. Topic: A new Tread of Sports Law, whit speech: The field of Sports and European Union after the Lisbon Treaty”, 14-15 Oct. 2012Seoul, North Korea.

In China Political Science and Law University Sports Law Structures, 18thIASL Congress. Topic:Sports Law Practice, Sports Law Justice and Sports Science and Studieswiht speech:LexSportivaLexOlympica and International Sports law, 10-11 Oct. 2012, Beijing.

International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport (ICSEMIS 2012, 19-23 July 2012, with speech: “IASL Presentation on “The Status of Sports Lawyers in the World”, Glasgow.

In International Scientific Conference “Present-Day Sports Law in Belarus and Abroad”. Belarusian Republican Union οf Lawyers”, “Urspectr”Llc with Support of State Public Association “Presidential Sports Club”, with subject: LexSportiva And International Legitimacy In Sports Activities, In Minsk On April 27, 2012, Belarus.

In sixth International scientific practical conference οf Moscow State Law Academy,With subject: LexSportiva: International or suiGeneris - “Unethnic” Law? In Moscow, on 30 May 2012,Russia.

In the Moscow State Law Academy named O.E. Kutafin, Conference "Sports Law: PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT" Moscow 30 May 2011 Moscow, Russia,

In Kuban State University, International Conference «Topical Issues of Sport Law
on the threshold of Olympic Games 2014», March 16-17 Krasnodar 2011, Russia

In Kwandong University 4th International Conference of the Asian Sports Law Association(ASLA) , Sports Law , 27th to 30th October 2011, Seoul South Korea